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EDITORIAL. After Berlin, Rome: Paris is at odds with its two main partners within the EU. Its room for maneuver suffers.
By Luc De Barochez
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On says Emmanuel Macron morose since he lost his majority in the National Assembly five months ago. His showdown with Italy around the humanitarian ship ocean viking must not have lightened his mood. The episode revealed how much the Head of State now embodies on the European scene what the Americans call a lame duck (“lame duck”), that is to say a political leader who has become too weak politically to impose his purposes.
After the falling out with Olaf Scholz, the dispute with Giorgia Meloni: for a President of the Republic who wanted so much to attach his name to the European cause, the disagreement with Germany and Italy, France’s two main partners in the within the Union, sounds like a mortifying double setback. The recent warming of…
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